Microspingus

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Microspingus
File:Poospiza lateralis -Extrema, Minas Gerais, Brazil-8.jpg
Buff-throated warbling finch (Microspingus lateralis)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Microspingus
Taczanowski, 1874
Type species
Microspingus trifasciatus
Species

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Microspingus is a genus of warbler-like birds in the tanager family Thraupidae. They are found in highland forest in South America.

Taxonomy and species list

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A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that the genus Poospiza was polyphyletic.[1] In the resulting rearrangement to create monophyletic genera the genus Microspingus was resurrected. It had been introduced in 1874 by the Polish zoologist Władysław Taczanowski with the three-striped hemispingus as the type species.[2][3][4] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek mikros meaning "small" with spingos meaning "finch".[5]

The genus Microspingus is the sister taxon to a clade containing the black-backed bush tanager in the monospecific genus Urothraupis and the Pardusco in the monospecific genus Nephelornis.[1][3]

The genus contains eight species:[4]

Image Common name Scientific name Distribution
File:Microspingus (Poospiza) lateralis - Buff-throated warbling-finch; Campos do Jordão, São Paulo, Brazil.jpg Buff-throated warbling finch Microspingus lateralis Brazil.
File:Tico-tico-da-taquara (Poospiza cabanisi).jpg Grey-throated warbling finch Microspingus cabanisi eastern Brazil, far eastern Paraguay, far north-eastern Argentina, and Uruguay
File:Rusty-browed Warbling-Finch (8077592723) (cropped).jpg Rusty-browed warbling finch Microspingus erythrophrys Argentina and Bolivia
File:Microspingus alticola - Plain-tailed Warbling-finch, Cajamarca, Peru (cropped).jpg Plain-tailed warbling finch Microspingus alticola Peru.
File:Ringed Warbling-Finch (Poospiza torquata) (cropped).jpg Ringed warbling finch Microspingus torquatus Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay.
File:Microspingus trifasciatus - Three-striped Hemispingus; Machu Picchu, Cusco, Peru.jpg Three-striped hemispingus Microspingus trifasciatus Bolivia and Peru.
File:Microspingus melanoleucus (Black-capped Warbling Finch), Capivara, Santa Fe, Argentina.jpg Black-capped warbling finch Microspingus melanoleucus Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and western Uruguay.
File:Poospiza cinerea - Cinereous warbling-finch (cropped).JPG Cinereous warbling finch Microspingus cinereus Brazil.

References

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